Re: duplicated values on primary key field on reindex - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: duplicated values on primary key field on reindex
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Msg-id 1152224187.13851.299.camel@state.g2switchworks.com
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In response to duplicated values on primary key field on reindex  ("Weerts, Jan" <j.weerts@i-views.de>)
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On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 16:36, Weerts, Jan wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> This was 8.1.3 and now is 8.1.4 running on Debian Sarge, locally
> compiled without any fancy options.

>
> While the first answer seems much more valid (the primarkey is
> an artificially created number), the second answer seems to
> be the one being presented for all further invocations of the
> above query.
>
> I noted, that the second row does not fit the "order by" clause,
> so I tried a reindex of the db, but that led to a duplicate
> value error:
> # reindex index tw_blob_pkey;
> ERROR:  could not create unique index
> DETAIL:  Table contains duplicated values.
>
> Now that is something I don't understand at all.
>
> Since the backup for said server went postal too long ago
> unnoticed, I would prefer a "repair" solution. Any ideas?

Can you get set of fields in that row to uniquely identify it by?

If so, see if you can update that column to something else and continue

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